Gardaí and Customs have made the biggest seizure of cannabis in 20 years and suspect the under-pressure Kinahan cartel were behind the shipment.

More than 40 top-secret “controlled delivery operations” were conducted by gardaí and Customs last year, netting drugs worth over €45 million.

Customs officers at Dublin Port have seized more than €80,000 after they stopped and searched a man attempting to board a ferry to Holyhead.

Two loaded guns, ammunition and drugs have been seized by Customs offers at Dublin Port.

Cocaine with a street value of €5m has been seized today after an international investigation.

CRIME gangs smuggling tonnes of illegal tobacco into the country are facing fines on average of just €527, shocking new figures have shown.

THE number of tip-offs to the Department of Social Protection about welfare cheats has doubled in the past year.

Sixty-three batches of a powerful weight-loss drug traditionally used by African bushmen on hunting trips have been seized by Customs this year, authorities revealed today.

CUSTOMS officials are flying out to the Philippines in the coming days as part of a massive investigation into the smuggling of 120 million cigarettes into Ireland.

MORE than 250 people were involved in the joint operation which led to the biggest seizure of drugs in the history of the state.

A €10m cannabis seizure made in Rosslare port was hidden under a consignment of potted plants — addressed to a business in Cork, it has been revealed today.

Gardaí have made the largest ever seizure of methamphetamine in the history of State after it swooped on a suspected Eastern European trafficking gang, it emerged tonight.

Detectives were today questioning a man after cocaine and cannabis worth half a million euro was seized during an investigation into eastern European drugs gangs.

CUSTOMS believe a man they stopped carrying more than €270,000 in cash through Dublin Airport was on his way to purchase a massive haul of drugs.

Britain’s first unified border force is to be set up by the Government, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said today.

A Jordanian man has told a jury in the Central Criminal Court that he had "no shadow of a doubt" that the man who came at him with a sawn-off shotgun while he was working at the Leasureplex in Blanchardstown, Dublin 15, was trying to murder him.

HEROIN and cocaine use is dominating the Irish drugs market, while ecstasy and cannabis availability appears to have dropped significantly, according to new figures.

THE value of illegal drugs seized at the country’s ports and airports trebled last year to €37 million, according to the Revenue 2005 annual report.

CROSS-BORDER police operations have intercepted criminal activity worth hundreds of millions of euro in recent years, according to a new report.

Customs officers have seized three million illegally smuggled cigarettes at Rosslare Harbour in Co Wexford.

An oil laundering and cigarette smuggling racket has been busted in Co Monaghan.

A joint operation between Gardai and Customs has led to the seizure of ecstasy tablets worth €200,000 in Dublin.

The Customs Service has employed five new sniffer dogs to help tackle drug smuggling into Ireland.